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Rheumatic Heart disease only affects the left side of the heart because the valves that are damaged by Rheumatic fever are on the left side of the heart. A physician would be the best person to answer this question.
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Why are left bundle branch block worse than right?
LBBB usually happens as a consequence of other diseases such as arteriosclerosis, rheumatic fever, congenital heart disease, myocarditis, myocardial infarction, metastatic heart tumors, or other invasions of the heart tissue.
What are example of cardiovascular diseases?
Cardiovascular disease is any disease which has to do with the heart and the blood vessels. The American Heart Association states that a cardiovascular disease (CVD) includes coronary heart disease (coronary artery disease, ischemic heart disease); stroke (brain attack); high blood pressure (hypertension); and rheumatic heart disease. There are about 80 million people in America who suffer from one or more forms of CVD. But trials and research indicate that we can reduce the risk for CVD simply by changing to a heart healthy lifestyle – appropriate diet, exercise and following a routine health care plan.A cardiovascular disease is a disease pertaining to the heart.Cardiovascular disease is a general term to describe any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. Any defects, disease, infection or abnormal functioning of the heart or blood vessels is considered cardiovascular disease, or also known as heart disease. Cardiovascular disease can lead to conditions such as angina, heart attack, arrhythmias, etc. It is currently the highest cause of death for both men and women worldwide.
What diseases or disorders affect the vessels?
Coronary heart diseaseCardiomyopathy, including viral, toxic and alcoholic typesCardiovascular diseaseIschemic heart disease and coronary artery diseaseHeart failureHypertensive heart diseaseInflammatory heart diseaseValvular heart disease such as mitral valve prolapseHeart cancersCongestive heart failurePericarditisBacterial endocarditisArrhythmia - many, many types, such as Wolff-parkinson white syndrome,Congenital heart anomalies such as tetralogy of fallot or hypoplastic left heartMyocardial infarctionrheumatic heart diseaseThe diseases or disorders affect your heart are generally referred to by one name, and that is cardiovascular disease. There are different kinds, and the ones most common are myocardial infarction, or heart attack, and hardening of the arteries, or atherosclerosis.
What causes accasional pain on the left side of the body near the heart?
heart disease or heart attack
What disease affects both the circulatory and respiratory systems?
Left ventricular failure affects the heart as well as the lungs. Chronic fibrosing alvelolitis may affect the right side of the heart. It is then called as cor pulmonale.
What VDs cause painful urination?
Gonorrhea is the sexually transmitted disease that causes painful urination. It is treatable with modern antibiotics but left untreated can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease and can even affect joints and heart valves.
What is a pathological condition of the heart in which there is a reduced outflow of blood from the left side of the heart?
Cardiovascular disease
What heart disease causes cyanosis?
Is result of emberoylic defect that lead of right to left shunt
What is a left atrial abnormality?
Left Atrial Abnormality is a finding on electrocardiograms (EKG). It is suggestive but not diagnostic of an enlarged left atrium, the chamber receiving blood from the lungs. The most common cause of a big left atrium is high blood pressure but it is by far not the only cause. Other causes include mitral valve disease (valve separating left atrium and left ventricle) and left heart failure (cardiomyopathies).
Why does the heart have its lower tip tilted towards the left?
.. our heart is not tilted to the left ! .. it help us to fight disease ang stilisize our body temperature !
The left ventricle is hyperdynamic what does that mean?
It means enlargement of the left ventricle of the heart. This is due to excess work done by the heart as in high blood pressure, damage to the heart muscle after heart attack, valvular disease, respiratory disease putting extra strain to the heart.
Why the mitral valve is most commonly involved in rheumatic heart disease?
Rheumatic heart disease is caused as a sequel of beta haemolytic streptococcal infection. It affects the mitral valve most commonly. All the four heart valves originate from the same embryonic cell rest. The golden question is why the mitral valve in involved most commonly and not others. The reason is very simple. You have to look at the hydrodynamics of the blood flow through the cardiovascular system. Blood flows in similar fashion through right and left side of the heart. But the pressure in left side is much more than in the right side. It is about 120 mm of mercury in the left and about 25 mm of mercury in the right side in the heart. So when the left ventricle contracts, blood strike on the mitral valve with much greater force than it strikes the tricuspid valve as the valve closes down. So the antibody/ antibodies in the blood also strike with great force on the mitral valve. So it is most commonly involved. The second most common valve is valve in aortic valve. Here again the pressure is high. About 120 mm of mercury. But there is way out for the blood to flow away. So the pressure is not maintained in sustained way. The strike of the blood against the valve is not as consistent. The third valve to get affected is tricuspid valve. Here the pressure is less as compared to the left side of the heart. The forth valve is pulmonary valve. Here the cavity is not tightly closed. Blood can flow away. So it is least affected.
